Top 1200 Minor Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Even though 'Kroll' was a crazy sketch show with big characters, one of the things I'm proud of about the show is that the characters were always kind of coming from an emotionally honest place for whoever I thought that character was.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Watching something like 'Orange is the New Black' - the development of the characters is amazing. Or 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' - those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that's a pretty magic thing.

I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.

To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

There are too many positive and goody male characters on TV, and they work, so its good for them. I feel each to their own. If it works for them, it's fine. I don't connect to such characters, so I won't do them.

Smart writers really take their time in investing in backstories and characters. As a viewer, you have to invest in them and love them before you can chip away at what's going on more on a deeper level with secondary characters.

I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.

I graduated with a foreign affairs/Middle East studies degree with a minor in Arabic from UVA in 2002.

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

Your simple words just don't move me... You're minor, we major. You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.

Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

Even in the Minor Leagues, I thought you have to go out and earn a spot. Nothing is ever given to you.

The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You have all of these strands with all of these characters, and you watch the characters interact and you wonder, "What do they have to do with each other? How does any of this link?"

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least sketch out my characters, and research various issues related to my characters' dilemmas.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

I want to do just minor, trivial stuff, things that I can do without worrying about the eyes of others.

When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.